Behavioral Ecology

2002 - 2025

Current editor(s): Louise Barrett

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Volume 24, issue 6, 2013

Editor's choice Uropygial gland volatiles facilitate species recognition between two sympatric sibling bird species pp. 1271-1278

Yao-Hua Zhang, Yu-Feng Du and Jian-Xu Zhang

Flight calls signal group and individual identity but not kinship in a cooperatively breeding bird pp. 1279-1285

Sara C. Keen, C. Daniel Meliza and Dustin R. Rubenstein

Mating preferences do not maintain the tailspot polymorphism in the platyfish, Xiphophorus variatus pp. 1286-1291

Zachary W. Culumber and Gil G. Rosenthal

Magpies do not desert after prolonging the parental care period: an experimental study pp. 1292-1298

Manuel Soler, Tomás Pérez-Contreras and Liesbeth de Neve

Ultraviolet crown coloration in female blue tits predicts reproductive success and baseline corticosterone pp. 1299-1305

Lindsay J. Henderson, Britt J. Heidinger, Neil P. Evans and Kathryn E. Arnold

Social conflict in ant larvae: egg cannibalism occurs mainly in males and larvae prefer alien eggs pp. 1306-1311

Eva Schultner, Patrizia d’Ettorre and Heikki Helanterä

Prey handling performance facilitates competitive dominance of an invasive over native keystone ant pp. 1312-1319

David M. Bednar, Jonathan Z. Shik and Jules Silverman

Disassortative mating for boldness decreases reproductive success in the guppy pp. 1320-1326

Tolulope O. Ariyomo and Penelope J. Watt

Sexual dimorphism in a feeding apparatus is driven by mate choice and not niche partitioning pp. 1327-1338

Brian J. Olsen, Russell Greenberg, Jeffrey R. Walters and Robert C. Fleischer

Effects of foraging and sexual selection on ecomorphology of a fish with alternative reproductive tactics pp. 1339-1347

Scott F. Colborne, Pedro R. Peres-Neto, Fred J. Longstaffe and Bryan D. Neff

Why woodcock commute: testing the foraging-benefit and predation-risk hypotheses pp. 1348-1355

Roger J. Masse, Brian C. Tefft, José A. Amador and Scott R. McWilliams

Revisiting the evidence for inbreeding avoidance in zebra finches pp. 1356-1362

Malika Ihle and Wolfgang Forstmeier

Immediate, independent adjustment of call pitch and amplitude in response to varying background noise by silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis) pp. 1363-1368

Dominique A. Potvin and Raoul A. Mulder

Rates of agonism among female primates: a cross-taxon perspective pp. 1369-1380

Brandon C. Wheeler, Clara J. Scarry and Andreas Koenig

Variance in mating success does not produce strong sexual selection in a polygynous songbird pp. 1381-1389

Bridget F. Sousa and David F. Westneat

Breeding synchronization facilitates extrapair mating for inbreeding avoidance pp. 1390-1397

Sjouke A. Kingma, Michelle L. Hall and Anne Peters

The role of beginner’s luck in learning to prefer risky patches by socially foraging house sparrows pp. 1398-1406

Tomer Ilan, Edith Katsnelson, Uzi Motro, Marcus W. Feldman and Arnon Lotem

Sexual selection acting on a speciation trait in darters (Percidae: Etheostoma) pp. 1407-1414

Tory H. Williams, Jennifer M. Gumm and Tamra C. Mendelson

Inferring activity budgets in wild animals to estimate the consequences of disturbances pp. 1415-1425

Fredrik Christiansen, Marianne H. Rasmussen and David Lusseau

Volume 24, issue 5, 2013

Human behavioral ecology: current research and future prospects pp. 1031-1040

Daniel Nettle, Mhairi A. Gibson, David W. Lawson and Rebecca Sear

Why mechanisms shouldn’t be ignored—commentary on Nettle by Brown pp. 1041-1042

Gillian R. Brown

Human behavioral ecology—necessary but not sufficient for the evolutionary analysis of human behavior pp. 1042-1043

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

Human behavioral ecology pp. 1043-1045

Stuart A. West and Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew

The pleasures and pitfalls of studying humans from a behavioral ecological perspective pp. 1045-1046

Louise Barrett and Gert Stulp

Response: how much you need to engage with mechanism depends on what you are trying to do pp. 1046-1047

Daniel Nettle, Mhairi A. Gibson, David W. Lawson and Rebecca Sear

Editor's choice Eye for an eyespot: how iridescent plumage ocelli influence peacock mating success pp. 1048-1057

Roslyn Dakin and Robert Montgomerie

Honeybee cognitive ecology in a fluctuating agricultural setting of apple and pear trees pp. 1058-1067

Paula C. Díaz, Andrés Arenas, Vanesa M. Fernández, Cinthia Susic Martin, Alicia M. Basilio and Walter M. Farina

A meta-analysis of correlated behaviors with implications for behavioral syndromes: relationships between particular behavioral traits pp. 1068-1080

László Zsolt Garamszegi, Gábor Markó and Gábor Herczeg

Personality traits are related to ecology across a biological invasion pp. 1081-1091

Carlos F. Carvalho, Ana V. Leitão, Caterina Funghi, Helena R. Batalha, Sandra Reis, Paulo Gama Mota, Ricardo J. Lopes and Gonçalo C. Cardoso

Slow explorers take less risk: a problem of sampling bias in ecological studies pp. 1092-1098

Erica F. Stuber, Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy, Kimberley J. Mathot, Ariane Mutzel, Marion Nicolaus, Jan J. Wijmenga, Jakob C. Mueller and Niels J. Dingemanse

Female preferences for acoustic and olfactory signals during courtship: male crickets send multiple messages pp. 1099-1107

Leigh W. Simmons, Melissa L. Thomas, Frederick W. Simmons and Marlene Zuk

Forewing pigmentation predicts migration distance in wild-caught migratory monarch butterflies pp. 1108-1113

Daniel Hanley, Nathan G. Miller, D.T. Tyler Flockhart and D. Ryan Norris

Tadpole antipredator responses change over time: what is the role of learning and generalization? pp. 1114-1121

Douglas P. Chivers and Maud C.O. Ferrari

Effects of cortisol administration on cooperative behavior in meerkat helpers pp. 1122-1127

Peter Santema, Zachary Teitel, Marta Manser, Nigel Bennett and Tim Clutton-Brock

Multiple mating in a lizard increases fecundity but provides no evidence for genetic benefits pp. 1128-1137

Daniel W.A. Noble, J. Scott Keogh and Martin J. Whiting

Fiery frills: carotenoid-based coloration predicts contest success in frillneck lizards pp. 1138-1149

David G. Hamilton, Martin J. Whiting and Sarah R. Pryke

The effect of disparate information on individual fish movements and emergent group behavior pp. 1150-1160

Sarah C. Stienessen and Julia K. Parrish

Cleaner fish coloration decreases predation risk in aggressive fangblenny mimics pp. 1161-1165

Karen L. Cheney

Multilevel selection and effects of keystone hyperaggressive males on mating success and behavior in stream water striders pp. 1166-1176

Ann T. Chang and Andrew Sih

Prey escorting behavior and possible convergent evolution of foraging recruitment mechanisms in an invasive ant pp. 1177-1184

Tomer J. Czaczkes, Ayrton Vollet-Neto and Francis L.W. Ratnieks

Differentiating among alternative models for the resolution of parent–offspring conflict pp. 1185-1191

Clare P. Andrews and Per T. Smiseth

When every sperm counts: factors affecting male fertility in the honeybee Apis mellifera pp. 1192-1198

M. Stürup, B. Baer-Imhoof, D.R. Nash, J.J. Boomsma and B. Baer

Male choice of mates and mating resourcesin the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus) pp. 1199-1204

Mara Casalini, Martin Reichard, André Phillips and Carl Smith

Predator and prey activity levels jointly influence the outcome of long-term foraging bouts pp. 1205-1210

Kayla Sweeney, Brian Cusack, Fawn Armagost, Timothy O’Brien, Carl N. Keiser and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Change in flight initiation distance between urban and rural habitats following a cold winter pp. 1211-1217

Anders Pape Møller, Tomas Grim, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo, Gábor Markó and Piotr Tryjanowski

Parental effects on early development: testing for indirect benefits of polyandry pp. 1218-1228

Sheri L. Johnson and H. Jane Brockmann

Foraging in groups allows collective predator detection in a mammal species without alarm calls pp. 1229-1236

Olivier Pays, Guy Beauchamp, Alecia J. Carter and Anne W. Goldizen

The evolution and function of pattern diversity in snakes pp. 1237-1250

William L. Allen, Roland Baddeley, Nicholas E. Scott-Samuel and Innes C. Cuthill

The effect of competitors on calling effort and life span in male field crickets pp. 1251-1259

Sophia Callander, Andrew T. Kahn, John Hunt, Patricia R.Y. Backwell and Michael D. Jennions

Mating system and intrapatch mobility delay inbreeding in fragmented populations of a gecko pp. 1260-1270

Rebecca Lange, Bernd Gruber, Klaus Henle, Stephen D. Sarre and Marion Hoehn

What is camouflage through distractive markings? pp. e1271-e1272

Sami Merilaita, H. Martin Schaefer and Marina Dimitrova

What is camouflage through distractive markings? A reply to Merilaita et al. (2013) pp. e1272-e1273

Martin Stevens, Jolyon Troscianko, Kate L.A. Marshall and Sive Finlay

Volume 24, issue 4, 2013

Green symphonies: a call for studies on acoustic communication in plants pp. 789-796

Monica Gagliano

Green symphonies or wind in the willows? Testing acoustic communication in plants pp. 797-798

Nathan W. Bailey, Kasey D. Fowler-Finn, Darren Rebar and Rafael L. Rodríguez

Never say never in a noisy world—commentary on Gagliano’s ‘green symphonies’ pp. 798-799

Stephen D. Simpson

Acoustic communication in plants: do the woods really sing? pp. 799-800

Carel ten Cate

The flowering of plant bioacoustics: how and why pp. 800-801

Monica Gagliano

Comments on ‘green symphonies’ pp. 800

R.B. Cocroft and H.M. Appel

Chimeric embryos—potential mechanism of avian offspring sex manipulation pp. 802-805

Makhsud Tagirov and Joanna Rutkowska

Editor's choice Behavioral syndromes as evolutionary constraints pp. 806-811

Ned A. Dochtermann and Niels J. Dingemanse

Amoeboid organism uses extracellular secretions to make smart foraging decisions pp. 812-818

Chris R. Reid, Madeleine Beekman, Tanya Latty and Audrey Dussutour

Human sperm competition in postindustrial ecologies: sperm competition cues predict adult DVD sales pp. 819-823

William F. McKibbin, Michael N. Pham and Todd K. Shackelford

Assortative mating by aggressiveness type in orb weaving spiders pp. 824-831

Simona Kralj-Fišer, Graciela A. Sanguino Mostajo, Onno Preik, Stano Pekár and Jutta M. Schneider

Food distribution influences social organization and population growth in a small rodent pp. 832-841

Alice Rémy, Morten Odden, Murielle Richard, Marius Tyr Stene, Jean-François Le Galliard and Harry P. Andreassen

An experimental test of the Westermarck effect: sex differences in inbreeding avoidance pp. 842-845

Urszula M. Marcinkowska, Fhionna R. Moore and Markus J. Rantala

Species recognition of color and motion signals in Anolis grahami: evidence from responses to lizard robots pp. 846-852

Joseph M. Macedonia, David L. Clark, Raymond G. Riley and Darrell J. Kemp

When a male changes his ways: sex differences in feeding behavior in the pied flycatcher pp. 853-858

Raivo Mänd, Elo Rasmann and Marko Mägi

Condition-dependent signaling and adoption of mating tactics in an amphibian with energetic displays pp. 859-870

Sarah C. Humfeld

Contrasting risks from different predators change the overall nonlethal effects of predation risk pp. 871-876

Will Cresswell and John L. Quinn

Female ostracods respond to and intercept artificial conspecific male luminescent courtship displays pp. 877-887

Trevor J. Rivers and James G. Morin

The operational sex ratio and density influence spatial relationships between breeding pipefish pp. 888-897

T. Aronsen, K.B. Mobley, A. Berglund, J. Sundin, A.M. Billing and G. Rosenqvist

Vocal kin recognition in kin neighborhoods of western bluebirds pp. 898-905

Çağlar Akçay, Rose J. Swift, Veronica A. Reed and Janis L. Dickinson

Strategic male courtship effort varies in concert with adaptive shifts in female mating preferences pp. 906-913

Andrew T. Kahn, Tegan Dolstra, Michael D. Jennions and Patricia R.Y. Backwell

Attractiveness of women’s body: body mass index, waist–hip ratio, and their relative importance pp. 914-925

Krzysztof Kościński

Nest size and aromatic plants in the nest as sexually selected female traits in blue tits pp. 926-934

Gustavo Tomás, Santiago Merino, Josué Martínez- de la Puente, Juan Moreno, Judith Morales and Juan Rivero- de Aguilar

Personality pace-of-life hypothesis: testing genetic associations among personality and life history pp. 935-941

Petri T. Niemelä, Niels J. Dingemanse, Nico Alioravainen, Anssi Vainikka and Raine Kortet

Bitter taste enhances predatory biases against aggregations of prey with warning coloration pp. 942-948

Hannah M. Rowland, Graeme D. Ruxton and John Skelhorn

Female northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) that roost together are related pp. 949-954

Krista J. Patriquin, Friso Palstra, Marty L. Leonard and Hugh G. Broders

Male ornamental coloration improves courtship success in a jumping spider, but only in the sun pp. 955-967

Lisa A. Taylor and Kevin J. McGraw

Male aggression varies with throat color in 2 distinct populations of the mesquite lizard pp. 968-981

Elizabeth Bastiaans, Gen Morinaga, José Gamaliel Castañeda Gaytán, Jonathon C. Marshall and Barry Sinervo

Acoustic cues alter perceived sperm competition risk in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus pp. 982-986

Brian Gray and Leigh W. Simmons

Risky business: sex differences in mortality and dispersal in a polygynous, monomorphic lemur pp. 987-996

Stacey R. Tecot, Brian D. Gerber, Stephen J. King, Jennifer L. Verdolin and Patricia C. Wright

Sex-specific thermal constraints on fiddler crab behavior pp. 997-1003

Michael Zachary Darnell, Kenna K. Fowler and Pablo Munguia

Spatial decoupling of song and plumage generates novel phenotypes between 2 avian subspecies pp. 1004-1013

Emma I. Greig and Michael S. Webster

Simultaneous viewing of own and parasitic eggs is not required for egg rejection by a cuckoo host pp. 1014-1021

Miklós Bán, Csaba Moskát, Zoltán Barta and Márk E. Hauber

No benefits of polyandry to female green turtles pp. 1022-1029

Lucy I. Wright, Wayne J. Fuller, Brendan J. Godley, Andrew McGowan, Tom Tregenza and Annette C. Broderick

Volume 24, issue 3, 2013

Do men’s faces really signal heritable immunocompetence? pp. 579-589

Isabel M.L. Scott, Andrew P. Clark, Lynda G. Boothroyd and Ian S. Penton-Voak

Multiple motives in women’s preferences for masculine male faces: comment on Scott et al pp. 590-591

Anthony C. Little

Evidence versus speculation on the validity of methods for measuring masculinity preferences: comment on Scott et al pp. 591-593

Lisa M. DeBruine

Female preferences for facial masculinity are probably not adaptations for securing good immunocompetence genes pp. 593-594

Luc F. Bussière, Matthew C. Tinsley and Ane T. Laugen

Toward an integrative perspective on sexual selection and men’s masculinity pp. 594-595

Steven W. Gangestad and Melissa A. Eaton

A new direction in research on sexual selection in humans pp. 595-596

Emily A. Stone

Response to comments on "Do men’s faces really signal heritable immunocompetence?" pp. 596-597

Isabel M.L. Scott, Andrew P. Clark, Lynda G. Boothroyd and Ian S. Penton-Voak

Editor's choice Parental behavior exhibits among-individual variance, plasticity, and heterogeneous residual variance pp. 598-604

David F. Westneat, Matthew Schofield and Jonathan Wright

Optimal sampling and signal detection: unifying models of attention and speed–accuracy trade-offs pp. 605-616

Kevin R. Abbott and Thomas N. Sherratt

Non–nest mate discrimination and clonal colony structure in the parthenogenetic ant Cerapachys biroi pp. 617-622

Daniel J.C. Kronauer, Kazuki Tsuji, Naomi E. Pierce and Laurent Keller

Clypeal patterning in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus: no evidence of adaptive value in the wild pp. 623-633

Jonathan P. Green, Ellouise Leadbeater, Jonathan M. Carruthers, Neil S. Rosser, Eric R. Lucas and Jeremy Field

Stopover refueling rate underlies protandry and seasonal variation in migration timing of songbirds pp. 634-642

Chad L. Seewagen, Christopher G. Guglielmo and Yolanda E. Morbey

Partial incubation and its function in great tits (Parus major)—an experimental test pp. 643-649

Katarzyna Podlas and Heinz Richner

Context-specific repeatability of personality traits in a wild bird: a reaction-norm perspective pp. 650-658

Edward Kluen and Jon E. Brommer

Hidden Markov analysis describes dive patterns in semiaquatic animals pp. 659-667

Joanna M. Bagniewska, Tom Hart, Lauren A. Harrington and David W. Macdonald

Strategic male mate choice minimizes ejaculate consumption pp. 668-671

Benjamin J. Wegener, Devi M. Stuart-Fox, Mark D. Norman and Bob B.M. Wong

Multiple achromatic plumage ornaments signal to multiple receivers pp. 672-682

Sarah Guindre-Parker, H. Grant Gilchrist, Sarah Baldo, Stephanie M. Doucet and Oliver P. Love

Canalization of phenology in common terns: genetic and phenotypic variations in spring arrival date pp. 683-690

Coline M. Arnaud, Peter H. Becker, F. Stephen Dobson and Anne Charmantier

Male diet, female experience, and female size influence maternal investment in swordtails pp. 691-697

Holly K. Kindsvater, Suzanne E. Simpson, Gil G. Rosenthal and Suzanne H. Alonzo

Differential effects of food availability and nest predation risk on avian reproductive strategies pp. 698-707

Helen R. Sofaer, T. Scott Sillett, Susana I. Peluc, Scott A. Morrison and Cameron K. Ghalambor

Do women’s preferences for men’s facial hair change with reproductive status? pp. 708-716

Barnaby J. Dixson, Jamie C. Tam and Monica Awasthy

Big brother is watching you: eavesdropping to resolve family conflicts pp. 717-722

Amélie N. Dreiss, Charlène A. Ruppli, Christof Faller and Alexandre Roulin

Spatial variation in food supply, mating behavior, and sexually transmitted disease epidemics pp. 723-729

Jonathan James Ryder, Daria Pastok, Mary-Jo Hoare, Michael J. Bottery, Michael Boots, Robert K. Knell, David Atkinson and Gregory D.D. Hurst

Experimental evidence that immediate neighbors affect male attractiveness pp. 730-733

Sophia Callander, Catherine L. Hayes, Michael D. Jennions and Patricia R.Y. Backwell

Transgenerational effects of diet environment on life-history and acoustic signals of a grasshopper pp. 734-739

Alexandra Franzke and Klaus Reinhold

Expression of pre- and postcopulatory traits under different dietary conditions in guppies pp. 740-749

Alessandro Devigili, Jennifer L. Kelley, Andrea Pilastro and Jonathan P. Evans

Maternal costs in offspring production affect investment rules in joint rearing pp. 750-758

James L. Savage, Andrew F. Russell and Rufus A. Johnstone

Positive effects of an invasive shrub on aggregation and abundance of a native small rodent pp. 759-767

Aurelio F. Malo, Ben Godsall, Clare Prebble, Zoe Grange, Samantha McCandless, Andrew Taylor and Tim Coulson

Trapline foraging by bumble bees: VII. Adjustments for foraging success following competitor removal pp. 768-778

Kazuharu Ohashi, Alison Leslie and James D. Thomson

Human facial attributes, but not perceived intelligence, are used as cues of health and resource provision potential pp. 779-787

Anthony J. Lee, Shelli L. Dubbs, Ashleigh J. Kelly, William von Hippel, Robert C. Brooks and Brendan P. Zietsch

Volume 24, issue 2, 2013

Epigenetics for behavioral ecologists pp. 311-324

Cris C. Ledón-Rettig, Christina L. Richards and Lynn B. Martin

Behavioral epigenetics in ecological context pp. 325-326

Eva Jablonka

Nongenetic inheritance for behavioral ecologists pp. 326-327

Russell Bonduriansky

Epigenetic inheritance systems act as a bridge between ecological and evolutionary timescales pp. 327-328

Renée A. Duckworth

The importance of epigenetics for behavioral ecologists (and vice versa) pp. 328-329

Emilie Snell-Rood

A place for behavior in ecological epigenetics pp. 329-330

Cris C. Ledón-Rettig, Christina L. Richards and Lynn B. Martin

Ecological and genetic distribution of eusociality: the case for kin selection pp. 331-333

Emilio A. Herrera

Editor's choice Early conditions and fitness: effect of maternal parity on human life-history traits pp. 334-341

Gine Roll Skjærvø and Eivin Røskaft

Phenotypic plasticity affects the response of a sexually selected trait to anthropogenic noise pp. 343-348

Mary J. Montague, Marine Danek-Gontard and Hansjoerg P. Kunc

Evidence of signaling benefits to contrasting internal color boundaries in warning coloration pp. 349-354

Marianne Aronsson and Gabriella Gamberale-Stille

Modeling the role of stage-structured agonistic interactions in ontogenetic habitat shifts pp. 355-365

Amanda E. Martin, Trent M. Hoover and John S. Richardson

Different roles for innate and learnt behavioral responses to odors in insect host location pp. 366-372

Ben Webster, Erika Qvarfordt, Ulf Olsson and Robert Glinwood

Pathogen disgust predicts women’s preferences for masculinity in men’s voices, faces, and bodies pp. 373-379

Benedict C. Jones, David R. Feinberg, Christopher D. Watkins, Corey L. Fincher, Anthony C. Little and Lisa M. DeBruine

Are queen ants inhibited by their own pheromone? Regulation of productivity via negative feedback pp. 380-385

Luke Holman, Chloé Leroy, Charlotte Jørgensen, John Nielsen and Patrizia d’Ettorre

Insect personality depends on environmental conditions pp. 386-392

Martin Tremmel and Caroline Müller

Socially mediated plasticity in call timing in the gray tree frog, Hyla versicolor pp. 393-401

Michael S. Reichert and H. Carl Gerhardt

Photoperiod influences the behavioral and physiological phenotype during ontogeny pp. 402-411

A. Guenther and F. Trillmich

Vocal deviation and trill consistency do not affect male response to playback in house wrens pp. 412-420

Emily R.A. Cramer

Male survival patterns do not depend on male allocation to sexual competition in large herbivores pp. 421-428

Jean-François Lemaître and Jean-Michel Gaillard

Socially cued developmental plasticity affects condition-dependent trait expression pp. 429-434

Michael M. Kasumovic, Matthew D. Hall, Heather Try and Robert C. Brooks

Primary and secondary sex ratios in a gregarious parasitoid with local mate competition pp. 435-443

Sahand K. Khidr, Sean Mayes and Ian C.W. Hardy

The effects of behavioral plasticity and leadership on the predictions of optimal skew models pp. 444-456

Ian M. Hamilton

Defensive and social aggression: repeatable but independent pp. 457-461

Daniel T. Blumstein, Matthew B. Petelle and Tina W. Wey

Testosterone production, sexually dimorphic morphology, and digit ratio in the dark-eyed junco pp. 462-469

Kristal E. Cain, Christine M. Bergeon Burns and Ellen D. Ketterson

Spectral niche segregation and community organization in a tropical cricket assemblage pp. 470-480

Arne K.D. Schmidt, Heiner Römer and Klaus Riede

A call-and-response system facilitates group cohesion among disc-winged bats pp. 481-487

Gloriana Chaverri, Erin H. Gillam and Thomas H. Kunz

Condition-dependent ways to manage acoustic signals under energetic constraint in a tree frog pp. 488-496

Loïc Brepson, Yann Voituron and Thierry Lengagne

The relative effect of parasites and social status on sperm traits in Arctic charr pp. 497-504

L. Figenschou, I. Folstad, G. Rudolfsen, S.A. Hanssen, R. Kortet, P.A. Skau, J.E. Killie, I.C. Oskam and H. Strand

Morphological defense influences absolute, not relative, nonconsumptive effects in marine snails pp. 505-510

Paul E. Bourdeau

Comparative transitive and temporal orderliness in dominance networks pp. 511-520

David B. McDonald and Daizaburo Shizuka

Individual and among-population variation in dispersal-related traits in Natterjack toads pp. 521-531

Joke Maes, Raoul Van Damme and Erik Matthysen

Aggression is task dependent in the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) pp. 532-539

Shelby J. Sturgis and Deborah M. Gordon

Nonrandom brood mixing suggests adoption in a colonial cichlid pp. 540-546

Franziska C. Schaedelin, Wouter F.D. van Dongen and Richard H. Wagner

Temporal patterns of broadcast calls in the corncrake encode information arbitrarily pp. 547-552

Paweł Ręk and Tomasz S. Osiejuk

Effects of habitat complexity on mating behavior and mating success in a marine fish pp. 553-563

Lise Cats Myhre, Elisabet Forsgren and Trond Amundsen

The long-term consequences of egg predation pp. 564-569

Sveinn Are Hanssen and Kjell Einar Erikstad

Local–foreign dialect discrimination and responses to mixed-dialect duets in the North Island kōkako pp. 570-578

David W. Bradley, Laura E. Molles and Joseph R. Waas

Volume 24, issue 1, 2013

Editorial pp. 1

Leigh W. Simmons

Exposing the behavioral gambit: the evolution of learning and decision rules pp. 2-11

Tim W. Fawcett, Steven Hamblin and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Evolutionary games and gambits pp. 12

Alasdair I. Houston

The bounds of rationality and cognitive building blocks pp. 13-14

Jeffrey R. Stevens

Learning to avoid the behavioral gambit pp. 13

Arnon Lotem

We can study how mechanisms evolve without knowing the rules of chess or the workings of the brain pp. 14-15

Tim W. Fawcett, Steven Hamblin and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Randomized or fixed order for studies of behavioral syndromes? pp. 16-20

Alison Bell

Editor's choice Strength in numbers: males in a carnivore grow bigger when they associate and hunt cooperatively pp. 21-28

Mia-Lana Lührs, Melanie Dammhahn and Peter Kappeler

The secret sex lives of sage-grouse: multiple paternity and intraspecific nest parasitism revealed through genetic analysis pp. 29-38

Krista L. Bird, Cameron L. Aldridge, Jennifer E. Carpenter, Cynthia A. Paszkowski, Mark S. Boyce and David W. Coltman

Maternally chosen nest sites positively affect multiple components of offspring fitness in a lizard pp. 39-46

Aaron M. Reedy, David Zaragoza and Daniel A. Warner

Incubating females use dynamic risk assessment to evaluate the risk posed by different predators pp. 47-52

Nicole A. Schneider and Michael Griesser

Amphibians’ response to the lunar synodic cycle—a review of current knowledge, recommendations, and implications for conservation pp. 53-62

Rachel Grant, Tim Halliday and Elizabeth Chadwick

Brook trout use individual recognition and transitive inference to determine social rank pp. 63-69

Shannon L. White and Charles Gowan

No evidence for deception over allocation to brood care in a cooperative bird pp. 70-81

C.M. Young, L.E. Browning, J.L. Savage, S.C. Griffith and Andrew F. Russell

Strategic sperm allocation and a Coolidge effect in an externally fertilizing species pp. 82-88

Rowena Spence, Martin Reichard and Carl Smith

Size-dependent microhabitat selection by masquerading prey pp. 89-97

John Skelhorn and Graeme D. Ruxton

Alternative behavioral measures of postconflict affiliation pp. 98-112

Corina J. Logan, Nathan J. Emery and Nicola S. Clayton

Collective choice of a higher-protein food source by gregarious caterpillars occurs through differences in exploration pp. 113-118

Melanie McClure, Lisanne Morcos and Emma Despland

Does hatching failure breed infidelity? pp. 119-127

Malika Ihle, Bart Kempenaers and Wolfgang Forstmeier

Finding food: outbound searching behavior in the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti pp. 128-135

Patrick Schultheiss and Ken Cheng

Are female offspring from a single-egg seabird more costly to raise? pp. 136-143

Ditte Lyngbo Kristensen, Kjell Einar Erikstad, Tone Kristin Reiertsen, Truls Moum, Robert T. Barrett and Susanne Jenni-Eiermann

Genetic polyethism in the polyandrous desert ant Cataglyphis cursor pp. 144-151

Pierre-André Eyer, Julien Freyer and Serge Aron

Divergent use of spawning habitat by male capelin (Mallotus villosus) in a warm and cold year pp. 152-161

Gail K. Davoren

Short-term but not long-term patch avoidance in an orchid-pollinating solitary wasp pp. 162-168

Michael R. Whitehead and Rod Peakall

Local offspring density and sex ratio affect sex allocation in the great tit pp. 169-181

Stephanie P. M. Michler, Marion Nicolaus, Marco van der Velde, Reinder Radersma, Richard Ubels, Christiaan Both, Jan Komdeur and Joost M. Tinbergen

Trapline foraging by bumble bees: VI. Behavioral alterations under speed–accuracy trade-offs pp. 182-189

Kazuharu Ohashi and James D. Thomson

Movement in a selfish seal herd: do seals follow simple or complex movement rules? pp. 190-197

Alta De Vos and M. Justin O’Riain

The effects of recruitment to direct predator cues on predator responses in meerkats pp. 198-204

Markus Zöttl, Raphaela Lienert, Tim Clutton-Brock, Eva Millesi and Marta B. Manser

Sex-specific offspring growth according to maternal testosterone, corticosterone, and glucose levels pp. 205-212

Samuli Helle, Toni Laaksonen and Otso Huitu

Revealed by conspicuousness: distractive markings reduce camouflage pp. 213-222

Martin Stevens, Kate L. A. Marshall, Jolyon Troscianko, Sive Finlay, Dan Burnand and Sarah L. Chadwick

To compensate or not to compensate: testing the negotiation model in the context of nest defense pp. 223-228

Alfréd Trnka and Tomáš Grim

Paternal effects on access to resources in a promiscuous primate society pp. 229-236

Elise Huchard, Marie J. Charpentier, Harry Marshall, Andrew J. King, Leslie A. Knapp and Guy Cowlishaw

Differential maturation of sexual traits: revealing sex while reducing male and female aggressiveness pp. 237-244

Pablo Vergara, Jesús Martínez-Padilla and Juan A. Fargallo

Evolution of defense against depletion of local food resources in a mechanistic foraging model pp. 245-252

Martin Hinsch, Ido Pen and Jan Komdeur

The growth benefits of aggressive behavior vary with individual metabolism and resource predictability pp. 253-261

Mia O. Hoogenboom, John D. Armstrong, Ton G. G. Groothuis and Neil B. Metcalfe

Mammalian nest predator feces as a cue in avian habitat selection decisions pp. 262-266

Jukka T. Forsman, Mikko Mönkkönen, Erkki Korpimäki and Robert L. Thomson

Tropical birds take small risks pp. 267-272

Anders Pape Møller and Wei Liang

Color-assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lacertid lizard pp. 273-279

Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza, Enrique Font and Pau Carazo

Short timescale rate maximization by gulls and implications for predation on size-structured prey pp. 280-292

Justin P. Suraci and Lawrence M. Dill

Geometric analysis of macronutrient selection in breeds of the domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris pp. 293-304

Adrian K. Hewson-Hughes, Victoria L. Hewson-Hughes, Alison Colyer, Andrew T. Miller, Scott J. McGrane, Simon R. Hall, Richard F. Butterwick, Stephen J. Simpson and David Raubenheimer

Eyespot display in the peacock butterfly triggers antipredator behaviors in naïve adult fowl pp. 305-310

Martin Olofsson, Hanne Løvlie, Jessika Tibblin, Sven Jakobsson and Christer Wiklund